NHS information technology.

Ten ways to improve information technology in the NHS. Any change in information technology in general practice requires extensive piloting.

Improved information for the NHS.

The Secretary of State's acceptance of the recommendations of the Steering Group on Health Services Information rounds off a stage of an enterprise that seeks to align the collection, processing, and dissemination of information in the National Health Service to the clinical and economic realities of the present and foreseeable future. The steering group has produced six reports,'6 and on the t...

Designing the Framework of the Premium Information Technology Award of the National Information Technology Conference Managers

Objectives: The National Conference of Information Technology Managers is conceivably the most significant of its nature in the country. Chief competitive advantage to comparable ones is its observant of products in IT as an alternative to papers. The purpose is a comprehensive design for the scientific evaluation of information technology products. Method: For the evaluation plan of the premiu...

The NHS Information Management and Technology strategy from a mental health perspective

Healthcare organisations are currently in the midst of a period of fundamental change. Mental health services in particular have moved away from institutional care towards a complex inter-related community health social and voluntary model of service delivery, involving a diverse range of care professionals and commissioners. Against this background, where different aspects of patient care are ...

The NHS information technology (IT) and social care review 2009: a synopsis.

BACKGROUND England's National Health Service information technology (NHS IT) has been much criticised in a number of major governmental and non-governmental reports. The author was requested to write a review of NHS IT to help formulate policy. OBJECTIVE To identify what had worked and should be continued and what was unhelpful and should be dropped from NHS IT. METHOD Iterative process of ...